Improvement in steam-radiators



A. L. IDE.

STEAM RADIATOR.

Patented July 1s, 18%.

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N PETERS. PHOTO LITIIlOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON D. C.-\'

ALBEn'r t. IDE, OF'SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM-RADIATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,033, dated July 18, 1876; application filed- Fbrnary 26, 1876. e

scriptionthereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view of my improved radiator. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the central steam-chamber.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The object of this invention is to increase the heating capacity of an indirect steamradiator; to render more rapid and perfect the expulsion of air and the circulation of steam within the same; to decrease the original cost; and to lessen the liability of such radiator to become injured by frost or by the expansion anchcontraction of its parts, to which end- It consists principally in a steam-chamber, provided at one or both sides with free-end tubes, which extend laterally outward and have an upward inclination from their inner to their outer ends, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter shown.

It consists further in a steam chamber, provided at one or both sides withlaterallyextending .free-end tubes, which are each provided with longitudinal circulating diaphragms, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a steamchamber, constructed with vertical ends a. and a, and horizontal top and bottom a and a, respectively, and having each of its sides, a and c, inclined upward and inward, at an angle of about ten degrees from a vertical line. Each side a is provided with two or more horizontal. series of openings, c and c which openings are preferably arranged so that those of one series are directly above 'thespac'es between those of the next lower series. Within each opening a, which is threaded, is secured one end of a pipe, B, the

stantially equal passages, b, b, and b, which unite at their outer ends. The device thus constructed being provided with an inletopening, D, for steam, an outlet-opening, D,

for the same, and an opening, Eyfor the es cape of condensed steam, operatesin the following-described manner: Upon admitting steam to the chamber A, its buoyancy'will cause it to epter into and pass. outward and upward through the upper compartments 1) and]; of each pipe B, while the air contained within the same will pass inward and downward through the lower passages, and, by

reason of itsirelative gravity, will pass to the lower portion of said chamber and escape through the outlet-opening D, the inclination of said pipes, as well as the division of their interiors into longitudinal compartments operating to effect the result named.

After the interior of the radiator has been completely filled with steam, the circulation described will still continue, as the temperature and bouyancy of the inward-flowing current of steam will exceed that of the outwardflowing current, an d cause the result'name'd to be constantly produced.

The inward and downward inclination of the pipes insures their entire freedom from water, While their nearly horizontal positions enables a larger proportion of air to be naturally brought-into contact with their exteriors than would otherwise be practicable.

If desired, the pipes B and B may extend horizontally outward from the chamber A,

but in such event the circulation will be less rapid and more water will collect in said pipes.

* UNITED STATES PATENT Orifice.

.[Iziving thus fully set forth the nature and B, which are eachprovided with a longitudimerits of my invention, what Iclaiin asnew nal circulating diaphragm, (J, substantially 'aily outward uml upweu'd, substantially as is-- V as and for the purpose Set foi th.

l. A steam-radiator composed-of a cham- 5 In testimony that I claim the foregoing 1 her, A, provided at one or both sides with l have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of free-end tubes B and B, which extend later- I February, 1876.

and for the purpose shown.

In a stezun-mdiator, the combination of VVituesses:

a chamber, A,- provided'at one or both sides SAML BENNETT, with laterally-extending free-end tubes 13 and HERMAN PRENK.

ALBERT L. IDE. 

